TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
Bear Inside Alaskan Market Scares Customer Away
Seen here arguing with an invisible clerk that it’s old enough to buy White Claw, a bear inside the Douglas Depot location of Thibodeau’s Market in Juneau, Alaska attempts to greet a customer as he comes in, only to frighten him away. Honestly, I assumed anybody living in Juneau, Alaska
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A Cappella Group Performs Major Movie Production Companies Opening Intros
Because the human voice is the most powerful instrument in the world, this is a video of South Korean a capella quintet Maytree performing the opening intro for a lot of the major US movie production companies, including (in order) 20th Century Fox, Disney, Universal, Columbia, Warner Bros., Paramount, Pixar,
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Roller Coaster Engineer Discusses The 8 Types Of Coasters
This is a clip from WIRED’s ‘A World of Difference’ of Korey Kiepert, engineer and owner of wooden roller coaster design firm The Gravity Group comparing and contrasting the eight main types of roller coasters, how they operate, and what decisions lead to building one style of coaster instead of
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A Visualization Of The Size Of Computer Storage
This is a visualization created by MetaBallStudios (previously) of various computer storage sizes (eg megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, and upward) if a single byte occupies a volume of one cubic millimeter (1mm3). Some more info while I try to estimate the total volume of my roommate’s horrible digital music collection if
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Party Time!: The Six Shot Quick-Pourer And Carrier
Because pouring shots takes time (I’m talking valuable seconds here) — time you could spend drinking instead, this is the $26 quick shot dispenser. You just pour into the middle of the bowl above, and it distributes booze relatively evenly into the shot glasses below (which can be individually plugged
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Sink Drain Clog Explodes In Disgusting Mess
This is a video of someone who I have the sneaking suspicious isn’t a licensed plumber attempting to unclog a drain with some sort of chemical mix, leading to an explosion. What the hell were they pouring in there, liquid firecracker? Can anybody explain this? And not just because I
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Archer Forfeits Own Shot After Opponent’s Equipment Malfunctions, Forfeiting His
Sporstmanship: maybe it isn’t entirely dead after all. Case in point: this archery match between Sergio Garrido of Spain and Claudio Alves of Portugal where Claudio’s arrow release wouldn’t trigger, causing him to forfeit a shot. Sergio asks what happened, and walks away from the line on his next shot,
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Nope: Adventurers Contorting Themselves Into Tiny Rock Hole To Explore Cave
Because having a good time means completely different things to different people, this is a video of a bunch of adventurers contorting themselves to fit into a tiny rock hole to access Deep Cave at the Deep and Punkin Caves Nature Preserve in Edwards County, Texas. Now to me that
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Macro Footage Of Tiny 1mm Stink Bugs Hatching
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s macro footage M&M’s melting in water comes another video from Youtube channel Another Perspective, this time some macro timelapse footage of tiny stink bugs hatching. They look so cute! Almost like something out of a Studio Ghibli movie. Speaking of stink bugs — they
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Woman Explains Why You Shouldn’t Push To ‘Power Pee’
This is a video of pelvic health professional and TikTok user nosuchthingasTMI (aka Sabrina) explaining the adverse health effects of regularly pushing yourself to pee faster. Of course I don’t think anybody actually thinks power peeing is good for them, or does it every time they pee, it’s just something
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